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Stephen Eakin’s recent work explores the connection between objects and their associated meanings, and how the context for that meaning comes to exist. He uses personal narratives, traditions and experiences to consider our intimate attachment to such things and how they engage with the politics of historical significance. Stephen has had solo exhibitions at the AC Institute in Chelsea NY; Bellocq Gallery in Ruston LA; Thomas Hunter Project Room in NY; and Sheppard Fine Arts in Reno, NV....

Kirby Miles is a Tennessee-based artist who utilizes the term of biomythography to concoct feminine composites of synthetic fabrics and fur, congealed crystalline drops, and revelatory text. Kirby received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019 and a BFA in Painting from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She has exhibited at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan, HIVE art space in Pennsylvania, Versa Gallery in Tennessee, among others. She has received an Art Residency from...

Max Colby is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work reframes traditional notions of domesticity, power, and gender through a queer and non-binary lens. Colby has exhibited internationally including Jane Lombard Gallery, Wave Hill, and Museum Rijswijk. Colby’s work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Gay City News, and The Evergreen Review, among others. They were recently an artist in residence at The Wassaic Project, MASS MoCA and a Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Artists’ Fellow. Born in West...

Kiran Chandra has earned an Honors BA from St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, a BFA from Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston and an MFA from Hunter College. Kiran has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad, including: The Bronx Museum of Art; Wave Hill; Momenta Art; Bogart Salon; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India; and Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, India. She has been awarded a Cisneros Scholarship, a BRIC Media Arts...

Alex Paik is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores visual, material, and social interdependence through site-responsive geometric modular wall installations. His work has been shown at galleries and art fairs nationally and internationally. He is the founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces and Gallery Director at Trestle Gallery, a non- profit arts organization in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. From 2015-18, he was Curator of Satellite Art...

Rachel Frank grew up near Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, the birthplace of American paleontology, where large mammoth and other megafauna fossils were found, altering Western views on extinction and evolution. Her work uses sculpture, video, and performance to explore the tensions between the natural world and the manmade, the animal and the political, and the past and the present. Rachel Frank received her BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania....

Carole Loeffler is a Philadelphia-based artist whose text work and found object based sculptures are a reaction to the post-election, toxic political environment that is enveloping the United States and the world. Carole is a native of New Jersey and received her B.F.A. from Rutgers University and her M.F.A. from University of South Florida in Tampa. Previously, she taught and directed the Foundations program at Southern Illi nois University Carbondale in the School of Art and Design....

Jeremy Olson is an American artist working in painting, video, sculpture and photography. His references range from the commercial still-life to science fiction, often utilizing small assemblages or dioramas as points of departure. His practices are thematically linked by an unwavering interest in how images shape desire, and can either constrain or expand possibilities. Olson’s work has been exhibited in New York as well as Antwerp, Baltimore, Berlin, Melbourne, and Seoul. He has...

Vanessa Albury is the Founding Artist and Director of Coral Projects, an artist-run, site-specific art exhibition underwater. The motivation and urgency for the project is inspired by the rapidly deteriorating coral reef life along Jamaica's shoreline. Though this is a global issue, Coral Project's founders have chosen the Oracabessa Bay to launch this initiative because of the milestones and community-minded work at the Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary. The goals of Coral Projects are to...

Jacqueline Bell Johnson is a California-based artist whose work explores the intersection of organic and architectural structures, by utilizing repetition of form and craft processes, with an undercurrent of feminism and the feminine experience. Jacqueline holds a BFA from California College of the Arts, and a MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Exhibitions of note include Deflated/Defeated at Human Resources, Man Made at the Brand Library, and Starburst at Cerritos College. Bell...

Sophia Krupsha was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1998. Her work explores local history, cultural identity and the industrial landscape. Sophia is studying for her BFA in Drawing and Painting from The Pennsylvania State University. She recently curated a show titled Timely Warning, which included work by female artists dealing with the issue of sexual assault on campus. She currently lives and works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Having been born in a historical area mined hollow by...

Katy McCarthy is an artist based in Brooklyn and working primarily in video and sculpture. Her work laminates historical moments with contemporary experience, often focusing on the role of historicization and the politics of gender and identity. She has been included in exhibitions at Cluster Gallery; Sleep Center Gallery, New York; Flux Factory; Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Tiger Strike Asteroid, Los Angeles; Maxon Mills; and the Military Museum in...

Sarah Walko is a multi-media artist whose work is inspired by literature and by the structure of storytelling. She works to create experiences that allow ones perceptions to shift from the historical, to the narrative, to the scientific, to the personal and to the magica. Sarah has a BA in studio art practices from the University of Maryland and an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. She is a writer on contemporary art, literature and film, an independent curator and is currently...

Kirk Maynard is a mixed media artist and educator from Brooklyn, New York. A second generation Guyanese-American, Maynard’s work focuses on the political undercurrents of culture and identity in America. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York City, San Francisco, and New Jersey. He has also given artist talks at the New Museum, Queens College, and Princeton University. Maynard currently lives and works in Orange, New Jersey. All images courtesy of the artist 00:00...

Shaina Lynn is a New Orleans-born, LA-based actress. She is also a writer, poet, Afro-Futurist, and multimedia artist that demands the healing of the Black woman’s experience in America. As the creator and a writer for Pursuit of Nappiness and contributor for HuffPost, Shaina cultivates spaces for analytical writing, love, and acceptance. Internationally, she has presented work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Ludwig Foundation, and Fabrica de Arte. She is a RYT 200 yoga instructor...

Born in 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska, Jay Milder is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. His work explores Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah's ark, and the esoteric mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah. Jay's work is included in the collection of many national and international museums. He has been the subject of two, recent retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum...

Artist Tattfoo Tan’s practice focuses on issues relating to ecology, sustainability and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral and educational in nature. Tattfoo has exhibited at venues including the Queens Museum of Art, Eugene Lang College at the New School for Liberal Arts, Parsons the New School for Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, 601 Tully: Center for Engaged Art and Research at Syracuse University, Macalester College, Ballroom Marfa, Creative Time, Aljira...